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Table 1 Leptospirosis: clinico-epidemiological and laboratory data

From: Lsa21, a novel leptospiral protein binding adhesive matrix molecules and present during human infection

Case number/gender/age [56]

Clinical and epidemiological information

Illness duration(days)

Laboratory data available(leptospirosis)

1/m/29

Contact with contaminated water; fever, headache, vomiting, muscular pain, jaundice. Pulmonary hemorrhage. Hemodynamic and hydroelectrolytic disturbances, atrial fibrillation, acute renal failure. Hepatomegaly.

14

Seroagglutination and ELISA IgM positive

2/f/22

Contact with sewage and rats. Fever, muscular pain and respiratory failure (pulmonary hemorrhage). Jaundice. Hepatomegaly.

4

None available

3/m/29

Contact with contaminated water (floods). Fever, muscular pain and respiratory failure (pulmonary hemorrhage). Jaundice. Hepatomegaly. Acute renal failure.

6

None available

4*/m/20

Fever, muscular pain for the last 5 days, jaundice, bipalpebral edema, acute renal failure, pulmonary hemorrhage, abdominal pain and vomits, low platelet count.

5

None available

5*/f/67

Contact with rats and contaminated water, fever and muscular pain for the last 8 days. Jaundice, conjunctival hemorrhage, dyspnea and hemorrhagic sputum, acute renal failure.

8

None available

  1. m: male; f: female; * cases previously published by De Brito et al. 2006 [47].